Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

cautèle

, L.

cautela

, fr.

cavere

to be on one’s guard, to take care.]

Caution; prudence; wariness.

[Obs.]

Fulke.

Craft; deceit; falseness.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Noun.

Caution.

cautel ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cautels)

(obsolete) deceit
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 3 lines 14-15-16
  
  Perhaps he loves you now,
  
  And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
  
  The virtue of his will
(obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fulke to this entry?)